Difference '030@50MHZ and '040@50MHZ

[Amithony]

Piru wrote:
MIPS is not accurate measurement of processor speed. It's actually far from being 4x as fast.

I thought that MIPS for the Amiga were a more accurate measurement of speed? What was your reasoning? I guess it depends on what we are benchmarking, but I always found it to be about right in terms of how applications perform. The only reasons I wouldn't opt for the 040 are heating and price, so price to performance the 030 would probably be a better buy given the extortionate ebay prices on 040s, if you manage to land one.

[Amithony]

I reckon we should do a raytracing test to a stopwatch, without graphics accelerators.

[Amithony]

I think an 060 looks like it handles all of them fairly amicably.